Krevinian dialect

Krevinian
Krevin
Native to	Latvia
Ethnicity	Kreevins
Extinct	mid-19th century[1]
Language family	Uralic Finnic Southern Finnic Votic Krevinian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zkv
Linguist List	zkv
Glottolog	krev1234

Krevinian, or Krevin (Latvian: krieviņu dialekts) was a dialect of the Votic language, spoken in Latvia until the mid-19th century.[2] It was spoken in the city of Bauske, in Courland.[3]

The Krevinian dialect left loanwords into the Bauska dialects, such as kurika 'cudgel'.[4]

Sample

Meģģi ise taiwâs!
jadku elka śiwu śenna
tulap meģģi tiwi śivu riikki!
Śiwu meelle se iggau ka kui taiwâs ni kans ma bēli!
Meģģi arma leipe anna meli tennawa.
Ġedde meggi padudd, kui me jattim umili nisi meli jad!
Elas meite kurja sad.
Śewon wodse kurģe miusse erre
Jo siula kalpap śiwu kikki śiwu appi un śiwu üwiwi śewonśe śewonśe.
Amen

— The Lord's prayer in Krevinian, [5]

References

1. "Krevinian". Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
2. Malte-Brun, Conrad (1829). Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe. A. Finley. pp. 64.
3. Collinder, Björn (1975). An Introduction to the Uralic Languages. University of California Press. p. 11.
4. Rajavuori, Anna (2014-04-12). "Seminaariraportti: Performatiivista kulttuuria ja poliittisia performansseja". Elore. 21 (1). doi:10.30666/elore.79129. ISSN 1456-3010.
5. Ernits, Enn. Ein neuer rekonstruktionsversuch der kreewinischen texte.